““Fifty years ago there were no Little League games on Sunday mornings, and the stores stayed closed. But while we like to complain about Sunday soccer practice, the reality is that those practices would have never been moved to Sunday mornings had the church not already lost so many of its faithful. Sunday soccer did not kill church attendance. Sunday soccer sprang up when people stopped finding something more worthwhile in our houses of faith, and instead looked to something new. Like I said, I share this news without panic. I deeply love my denomination, as well as the other denominations that make up the mainline traditions.””
![“In Abercorn things are very profane, they do not celebrate Sundays and holy days. . . . It is a shame that Sundays are esteemed so little by most people in Christendom. Some of them drone it away loosely, others [the freethinkers] believe it is a day like other days, even though our dear God has…” quote by Johann Martin Boltzius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dcc/johann-martin-boltzius-22940_dear-god_in-abercorn-things-are-very-profane-they_2307652.jpg)
